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SubjectRe: [HUMOR] Quake 1 source code.
On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Daniel Silverstone (Kinnison) wrote:

[snip]
> Come on people - knfsd was (reasonably) sensible, but khttpd is daft.
>
> Most people don't want to be compiling kernel modules to do web-serving.
> Apache / others are fine for the job - let's stop trying to make the kernel
> a
> jack-of-all-trades, and make it a "damned-good-at-what-it-needs-to-do"
> instead.

Unfortunatly, if what it's needs to do = what it's users need, and it's
users need Linux to outperform NT at static web serving, then khttpd is
the right thing. Also, it doesn't gunk up the rest of your system if you
arn't using it. So it's not a big deal.




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